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Author Gaukroger, Stephen, author.

Title The natural and the human : science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841 / Stephen Gaukroger.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Introduction; PART I; 1: The Dichotomies of Understanding; THE PLACE OF REASON; SYSTEMATIC KNOWLEDGE; REASON AND SENSIBILITY; THE CHALLENGE TO REASON; THE LIMITS OF CERTAINTY; THE ANATOMY OF REASON; 2: Rethinking the Nature of Matter; THE REACTION TO MECHANISM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL 'ELEMENTS'; VITAL FORCES; THE UNITY OF FORCE; NATURALIZATION; PART II; 3: Anthropological Medicine; THE IDEA OF AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL MEDICINE; MATTER AND SENSITIVITY; MÉDECINS PHILOSOPHES.
SOCIAL MEDICINETHE DEMISE OF SENSIBILITY; 4: Philosophical Anthropology; METAPHYSICS AND PSYCHOLOGY; LANGUAGE AND ART; THE SHAPING OF EXPERIENCE; THE LEGITIMACY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPLANATION; 5: The Natural History of Man; THE PROBLEM OF CLASSIFICATION; ANTHROPOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE HISTORY; 6: Social Arithmetic; THE FABLE OF THE BEES; THE NATURALIZATION OF MORALITY; THE QUANTIFICATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE; THE AVERAGE MAN; PART III; 7: The Naturalization of Religion; THE LIMITS OF REASON; THE HISTORICIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY.
THE HISTORICIZATION OF DOGMATHE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIONS; AESTHETIC HUMANISM AND THE CULTIVATION OF THE SELF; Conclusion; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index.
Summary Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of science and our understanding of ourselves during a period which saw a fundamental shift in how the role of science was understood. At the core of the shift, he argues, lay the aim of understanding human behaviour and motivations in empirical rather than theological and metaphysical terms.
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Subject Science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Science.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Philosophy and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy and science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Religion and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Religion and science.
Religion and science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Science and civilization.
Science and civilization.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
1700-talet
1800-talet
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Gaukroger, Stephen. Natural and the human. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016 9780198757634 (DLC) 2015943256 (OCoLC)917362552
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